The aisles smelled of mothball dust
but that didn’t matter.
He walked through them
with enough confidence
for the two of us.
Our idea of a date
was a game
of sifting through centuries
of sweaters until we found one ugly enough
to put our grandparent’s to shame.
He slipped on a thick,
brown and yellow argyle
mammoth of stitches.
Our smiles voted unanimously;
It won by a landslide.
Meanwhile, inside, my heart was knitting
it’s own lumpy masterpiece
just as hideous as the one on his shoulders
yet designed to fit perfectly
during the impending winter.